The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 41

She looked out over the country the first thing, but seeing nothing she sat down to rest a little, and accidentally leant back against the wall which Curlicue, or rather Prince Peerless, had so hastily mended.

Who acts: Stalk, Curlicue · What happens: look out, see, sit down, rest, leant back, mend · To what, where: first thing, country, nothing, little, Peerless

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stalk, Curlicue), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADV	_	2 looked	advmod
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 country	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 country	det
6	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 thing	det
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 thing	amod
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sat	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 sat	cc
12	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 sat	csubj
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 seeing	obj
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sat	nsubj
15	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
16	down	down	ADV	_	15 sat	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 rest	mark
18	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 sat	advcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 little	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 rest	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 leant	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 leant	cc
23	accidentally	accidentally	ADV	_	24 leant	advmod
24	leant	leant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
25	back	back	ADV	_	24 leant	advmod
26	against	against	ADP	_	28 wall	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 wall	det
28	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 leant	obl
29	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	30 Curlicue	det
30	Curlicue	curlicue	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wall	appos
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 mended	punct
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	40 mended	cc
33	rather	rather	ADV	_	35 Peerless	advmod
34	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Peerless	nmod:desc
35	Peerless	Peerless	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 mended	nsubj:pass
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Peerless	punct
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 mended	aux
38	so	so	ADV	_	40 mended	advmod
39	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	40 mended	advmod
40	mended	mend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 Curlicue	acl:relcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look out	past	Stalk	the first thing	the country	out property	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	see	gerund		nothing			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
3	sit down	past	Stalk			down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	rest	to-infinitive	Stalk not said here	a little			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location little=Theme
5	leant back	present				against the wall; accidentally property	tree rules
6	mend	past · perfect · passive	which Curlicue not said here	Peerless Prince		hastily property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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